Peter J. Levine
Peter J. Levine is an American engineering executive and venture capitalist.Biography
Levine earned a BS in engineering from Boston University in 1983, and worked at Spectrum Software.
He then worked as an engineer on Project Athena at MIT, and attended the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1988 and 1989.
From 1990 through 2001 he was an early employee of Veritas Software, beginning his career as a software engineer and ending as a vice president.
Levine was a general partner at Mayfield Fund from 2002 through 2005. Levine was also the CEO of Mendocino Software from incubation in 2003,
along with other former-Veritas executives Steve Colman and Jeffrey J. Rothschild.
After a third round of funding in 2007, and licensing its software to a few customers, Mendocino shut down quietly by March 2008.
Levine became president and CEO of Xensource in February, 2006.
After working to grow the faltering company's revenues, Xensource was acquired by Citrix in 2007 for $500 million, despite few revenues. Levine became a vice president of Citrix.
Levine taught marketing and sales at the Sloan School of Management in 2010 and 2011, and at the Stanford Graduate School of Business starting in 2012.
In March, 2011, Levine became a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, leading the firm's investments in enterprise software including data center technology, enterprise applications and mobile computing.
He serves on boards of directors including Bromium from 2011, Actifio from 2011, Mixpanel from 2012, Udacity from 2012,, Onshape from 2015, and Alluxio since 2015.
He became a member of the board of trustees of the National Outdoor Leadership School in 2013 for a term through 2019.
